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A teacher's private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal Massachusetts ...

The author of The Adversary and Yoga unearths a history that includes the Nazis, Russia, and the Académie Française ...

A terminally ill woman makes a final trip to Egypt in an exquisitely wrought portrait of end-of-life reckoning ...

The American poet and essayist weaves memoir, fiction, criticism and lyrical lament into a tale of friendship in an age of existential crisis ...

A writer and activist takes stock of women's rights in these changing, troubled times ...

An excellent, compassionate biography of the wildly prolific romantic novelist ...

A Guardian correspondent's sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine - and the possible reasons behind it ...

This Booker-listed epic set in Aids-era Kingston is a triumph - bitter, bawdy and ravishingly queer ...

As a lonely teenager, the novels of Nancy Mitford offered the Sorrow and Bliss author a lifeline, and an imaginary friend. She explores why reading can create a particularly intense bond with a favourite writer ...